How to delete all files beginning with ... ?

[laredotornado@zipmail.com]

Hi, I'm using PHP 4. I would like to delete all files in my directory
/mydir that match the regular expression

/mydir/temp*

What is the shortest way in which I can do this?

Thanks, - Dave

[Chris Hope]

Re: How to delete all files beginning with ... ?

laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:
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> Hi, I'm using PHP 4. I would like to delete all files in my directory
> /mydir that match the regular expression
>
> /mydir/temp*
>
> What is the shortest way in which I can do this?[/color]

How about: exec('rm -f /mydir/temp*');

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[Erwin Moller]

Re: How to delete all files beginning with ... ?

Chris Hope wrote:
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> laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:
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>> Hi, I'm using PHP 4. I would like to delete all files in my directory
>> /mydir that match the regular expression
>>
>> /mydir/temp*
>>
>> What is the shortest way in which I can do this?[/color]
>
> How about: exec('rm -f /mydir/temp*');
>[/color]


Or a more platform independent way:

foreach (glob("temp*") as $filename) {
unlink ($filename);
}

Regards,
Erwin Moller